14 DAY TRIAL // Hungarian painter and new media artist Bence Hajdu unveiled his view of these famous paintings, focusing on relaying the architectural details in the scenes by removing all the characters from them.
The resulting pieces seem desolate, depictions of an isolated, long forgotten world, abandoned by its inhabitants.
The artist's focus was on perspective. He tries to recreate the steps the artist that created the original work took when recreating angles, shading and light. Hajdu first became interested in recreating the paintings after a design class at university.
“I am a student at the university of fine arts, hungary. at one of the descriptive geometry classes we had a task to find and draw the perspective and horizon lines of renaissance and other pictures with significant perspective space. I thought it is not that interesting to just draw lines, so I decided to erase all the characters from them and examine how the painter really created the perspective space and how it actually looks.
I saw this could be something exciting and continued thinking and working on it. after a while I found myself interested in the new atmosphere and the new thoughts the retouched pieces generated without their main subjects,” Hajdu said.
